| "The bottom of the stratosphere is around 10 km (6.2 miles or about 33,000 feet) above the ground at middle latitudes. The top of the stratosphere occurs at an altitude of 50 km (31 miles)" says the article: Hole in the Ozone Layer
"The layer above the Troposphere is known as the Stratosphere (strat-os-feer). Gases in the stratosphere are layered (why it has the prefix, "strato", meaning layered), the air is very thin (little moisture as well), and is extremely cold (lower stratosphere). Although the lower part of the stratosphere is cold, the heat in the stratosphere increases as altitude increases. This is because of the ozone layer in the upper part of the Stratosphere. The Ozone layer absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun, and as a result, warms up the air. This ozone layer is key to our safe living on Earth."
"The uppermost atmosphere is called the Thermosphere (therm-os-feer). Here, the temperature again increases with altitude. This is because atoms of nitrogen and oxygen absorb high-energy solar radiation and give off thermal energy... this causes the temperature to increase up to 1,000 degrees Celsius.
Even though it may seem, it is actually not hot in the Thermosphere. Pay close attention to these details:
Temperature is different from heat
Temperature is the measure of the average energy of particles in motion. Thus, the thermosphere has particles moving very fast.
Heat is the transfer of thermal energy between objects of different temperatures. Therefore, particles must touch one and another to transfer heat.
In the Thermosphere, it is has a low density--thus the particles in the Thermosphere usually don\'t collide, thus not giving off heat." Wikipedia
"The ozone layer has been measured regularly and globally for about fifty years since a worldwide network of stations, including the Halley Bay Station in Antarctica, was developed as part of the International Geophysical Year (1957). Since the 1970s, satellites have been widely used to observe the earth\'s environment, enabling fast, spatio-temporal data acquisition on a global scale. Based on an accumulation of data and science, we now have a reasonable understanding of how the ozone layer varies in the four-dimensional spatio-temporal space and of what environmental parameters are pertinent to the variation of the ozone layer. In this description, we illustrate how ozone is distributed in the atmosphere and why the ozone layer varies in the way it does; our main resource was the text, "Stratospheric Ozone: An Electronic Textbook," http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/SEES/ozone/oz_class.htm.
In large part, the earth\'s ozone distribution is controlled by the properties of the solar-earth system. First, the earth\'s gravity forces the air to stay around the surface of the earth and form the atmosphere. Second, the sun\'s energy, directly or indirectly, hits and heats the atmosphere and ground, then radiates away to outer space. Consequently, the atmosphere is stratified into several layers according to the variation in temperature. Meanwhile, UV energy from sunlight enables large-scale atmospheric chemical reactions, including the production and decomposition of ozone molecules. Due to the shape and rotation of the earth and the energy from the sun, there is variability in air pressure. Consequently, diverse air streams transport the products of the atmospheric chemical reactions globally from one place to another. Since the majority of atmospheric ozone is the result of photochemical reactions driven by the energy of the sun, the ozone distribution is dynamically and chemically determined by these processes. "
"The lower portion of the stratosphere is also influenced by the polar jet stream and subtropical jet stream. In the first 9 kilometers of the stratosphere, temperature remains constant with height. A zone with constant temperature in the atmosphere is called an isothermal layer. From an altitude of 20 to 50 kilometers, temperature increases with an increase in altitude. The higher temperatures found in this region of the stratosphere occurs because of a localized concentration of ozone gas molecules. These molecules absorb ultraviolet sunlight creating heat energy that warms the stratosphere. Ozone is primarily found in the atmosphere at varying concentrations between the altitudes of 10 to 50 kilometers. This layer of ozone is also called the ozone layer . The ozone layer is important to organisms at the Earth\'s surface as it protects them from the harmful effects of the Sun\'s ultraviolet radiation. Without the ozone layer life could not exist on the Earth\'s surface."
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My Q. How can such minuscule amount of energy that doesn\'t interact with H2O or ozone cause any climatic change on earth. Think what size that blanket would have to be to have any effect on weather bellow. Another important factor is low atmospheric pressure which is preventing it from clustering into a uniform sheet of energy. Clearly, CO2 is not changing the climate. This hype on humans creating global warming is nothing more than a cobweb fluff of a lazily \'put together\' science, and a political bandwagon to coverup an extravagant budget spending of our politicians. But, yes lets clean up the pollution. We need clean air. I\'ll write more about it in my next journal.
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7b.html
https://www.uow.edu.au/niasra/our-research/centre-for-environmental-informatics/web-pro...
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Layers_of_the_Atmosphere
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2019/07/30/co2-drives-global-warming/
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